Combined planter and tobacco-miller



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- T. L.GRAY.

COMBINED PLANTBR AND TOBAGGO HILLER.

No. 522,367. Patented July 3 18 94.

(No Model.) 2 Sfieets-Sheet I T. L. GRAY..

COMBINED PLANTER AND TOBAGGO HILLER. Patented July 3, 1894.

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UNITED STATES A PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS LOGAN GRAY, 0F HINSLEYTOWN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO THOMAS P. ALLE N, OF ELMO, KENTUCKY.

COMBINED P'LANTER AND ,TOBAYCCO-HIL'LER.

SPECIFICATION forming part statesmen No. 522,3e7, dated July 3, 1894. 7 Application filed September 21, 1893- Serial No. 486,095- (No model.) 7

To aZ Z whom' it may concern."

Be it known that I, THoMAs LOGAN GRAY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hinsleytown, in the county of Christian and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and useful Combined Planter and Tobacco-Hiller, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in planters, the objects in View being to produce .sectional view through one of the hoppers.

Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional View through Fig.4 is" a, similar view in rear of the ho ppers. Fig. 5 is a detail in perspective of one of the plows and a portion of its standard. Fig. 6 is a similar view of the barrow. Fig. 7 is a detail ofv the seedslides. Fig. 8 is a plan view of the rear portion of machine, the drivers seatremoved, T

Like numerals of Ireferenceindicate like parts in all the figures ofthe drawings In the practice of my inventioniI-employ. a pair of opposite longitudinal'beams 1, which are connected by suitable cross-bars, and at their front ends by a transverse bolt or rod 2 upon which is pivoted the tongue 3. The under sides of the beamsare provided with transversely opposite bearings 4, and in the same is journaled for loose rotation a transverse axle 5, the ends of which carry groundwheels 6. The hub of one of the ground- Wheels, namely, at the right of the machine, is provided with ratchet teeth7, the said hub being loose upon the shaft, and at'the inner side thereof and designed to engage with the said teeth is a splined clutch-sleeve 8, the said clutch being connected to a. lever 9 through the medium of a yoke 10, the said leverbe- 5o ing fulcrumed at its front end to a bracket 11.

A locking standard 12 projects from the adjac ent beam, and is provided upon its under side with a stud. By throwing the lever to 'either side of the stud, the aforesaid clutch will be thrown in or withdrawn from engagement with the hub of the wheel. The axle is provided with a master-gear 14 Which engages l with a spur-gear 15, which is mounted upon a short stub-shaft 16 that projects from the beam 1 in rear of the master-gear. The said stub-shaft is further provided with a conepulley 17 which is loose upon the shaft and fastened to the said spur-gear 15. This conepulley is connected to a similar though oppositely disposed pulley 18 located upon a stubshaft 19 at the rear end of the machine and whose outer end is supported by an inverted L-shaped bracket 20. The inner end of the the bottom of the hopper and they themselves are provided with elongated slots 26 over each of which is mounted a gage-plate 27 regulated .bya set-screw 28.. By moving the late the slot inthe slide may be increased or decreased as will be obvious. A pair. of cutoft' plates 29 are arranged. over the slides within each hopper andproject from the rear ends thereof, at which points they are upturned as at 30 and yieldingly connected to the rear walls of the hopper by coiled springs 31 whereby they are consequently pressed forward,'but not to such a point as tocover the seed-slots in the seed-slides when the latter are moved forward to their fullest extent. Thus far it will be seen I have provided a planter that is capable of planting either fertilizer or grain, or both, automatically, said slides being operated simultaneously by the revolutions of the ground-wheel.

At the rear ends of the two beamsa drivers seat 32 is supported upon standards 33, and

between the standards and the beams there is fulcrumed on a shaft 34 a foot-lever 35. This foot-lever is provided at its left side with a depending terminal or arm 36, and the same engages pivotally at 36, with a sliding plate 37 that is slotted near its rear end as at 38, and supported at the inner side of the adjacent beam by a bolt 39. This plate is provided below its slot with a crank-pin 40 and with which the pitman-rod 25 may be connected when it is desired to operate the slides merely by foot power and at intervals. i/Vhether secured to the crank mentioned or to the crank 21 a split-pin and washer 41 will serve the purpose of securing the two together. The lower end of the arm 36 beyond the point of pivotal connection 36* with the plate 37 is connected to a stationary portion of the framework by means of a coiled spring 43, whereby the front end of the foot-lever is normally maintained upwardly inclined. A transverse plate 44 connects the rear ends of the two beams, and pivoted to the same by a bolt 45 is a pair of rearwardly disposed bearing-arms 46 in which are journaled the opposite ends of a shaft 47 carrying a packingroller 48, whose periphery is concaved, as usual. A rake-bar 49 carrying teeth 50 has its opposite ends reduced and journaled in blocks depending from the beams 1, and in advance of the same is arranged astopplate 51 which is connected to the rake or harrowteeth by means of a coiled spring 52, whereby the said harrow-teeth are yieldingly drawn to the front.

A pair of compound curved beams 53 are pivoted to a front transverse draft-bolt 2 and are connected at intervals by the transverse tie-bolts 54, of which the front one passes through ears projecting from the front end of a seed-conductor 55 disposed between the beams and held in position by said tie-bolts. The rear ends of the beams 53 are provided at their inner sides with L-shaped arms 56 and pivoted to said beams at their rear ends and in advance of the arms are the rear vertioal flanges 57 of a pair of covering plows 58, the inner or moldboard side of the plows being connected by coiled springs 59 which by drawing the upper ends to the rear, yieldingly press the lower ends of the plows to the front. Thus, in case of meeting with an 0b: struction, the plows will yield and pass over the same instead of becoming broken.

A transverse shaft 60 is journaled in the beams 1 in rear of the axle 5, and has an in: termediate crank portion 61 thatis connected with the rear tie-rod that connects the plow: carrying beams, while the outer end of the shaft is upwardly bent to form an angular lever 62 designed to engage under a hook 63 when it isdesired to support the beams together with the plows and runner out of operative position. 1

This completes the construction of the machine and the operation thereof is as follows:-If it is desired to fertilize the tobacco hills as they are formed, the land is first laid oif one way and the seed-plates in the slides projected so as to expose more or less of the slots, and the hopper filled with fertilizer. The pitman is now connected to the left crank shaft, whereby the said slides may be operated by the foot of the driver at proper intervals. If, on the other hand, it is desired to plant seed and at the same time drop fertilizer, seed is placed in one hopper and fertilizer in the other and the position of the pitman shifted so as to be engaged with the crank 21; the clutch is then moved so as to throw the clutch-sleeve into engagement with the ground-wheel and the machine becomes an automatic planter, discharging the grain at intervals.

From the foregoing description in connection with the accompanying drawings it will be seen that I have provided a very simple machine that is adapted to drop grain and fertilizer simultaneously and hill the same by the plows following thereafter, and to subsequently harrow or rake the hill, and to finally mold the same by the roller following after the machine; that the machine is adapted for planting grain as well as forming tobacco hills, and that the quantities delivered at each movement of the reciprocating seed-slides may be regulated at will and finally that in traveling to and from the field of operation the machine may be thrown out of operative connection.

Having described my invention, what I claim is 1. Ina machine of the class described, the combination with a framework, a superimposed hopper having an opening in its bottom, a seed-slide arranged in the hopper, a footlever in rear of the seed-slide,a seat in the rear of the foot-lever, an arm dependingfrom the foot-lever, a spring connected to the arm and serving to draw the same forward,a pivoted plate connected at one end to the arm and provided at its opposite end with acrankpin, and a pitman connecting the rear end of the seed-slide with said crank-pin, substan* tially as specified.

2. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a framework, a superimposed hopper having an opening in its bottom, a seed-slide having a slot, a gage-plate and regulating-screw supportedin the slot, of a yielding cut-0E plate mounted for horizon tal movement over the slide, and means for operating the slide, substantially as specified.

3. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a framework, a superimposed hopper having an opening, a seed-slide arranged in'the hopper over the opening and having a discharge opening, and means for operating the slide, of a cut-0E plate arranged in the bottom of the hopper over the slide and having a rear upturned end, and a coiled spring connecting said upturned end witlithe Eear wall of the hopper, substantially as specidivided hopper, arranged thereon, of a pair of seed-slides having openings connected at their rear ends and located in the hoppers and provided at their rear connected ,ends with a depending shank or arm, a foot-leverarranged in rear of the hop pers, a crank-shaft arranged in rear of the hoppers, a groundwheel, and axle, rmeans for communicating motion from the ground-wheel and axle to the crankshaft, and connecting devices between the crank of the seed-plate and adapted for connecting with either the crank-shaft or the foot-lever, substantially as specified.

5. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a framework, a superimposed hopper, a reciprocating seed-slide, and a pitman at the rear end thereof, of a foot lever adapted to be connected with the pitman, a rear shaft also adapted to be connected with the pitrnan an axle, ground-wheels, and means for communicating motion from one of the ground-wheels to the said shaft, substantially as specified.

6. In a machine of the class described, the combination with a framework, a superim-v posed hopper, a seed-slide, a pitman connected therewith, a transverse shaft havinga crank-pin; engaging the pitman, and a pulley on said shaft, of an axle, ground-wheels arranged on the axle, an intermediate shaft, a

spur-gear thereon, a master gear on the axle engaging with the spur-gear, a pulley on the intermediate shaft, and a belt between the pulley of the intermediate shaft and the crank-shaft, substantially as specified,

7. In a machine of the class described, the

combination with the framework, the superimposed hopper, the reciprocating slide, and the pitman, of a rear crank-shaft having a cone-pulley, the intermediate shaft having a reversely disposed cone-pulley, and a spurthe pulleys, the axle, the ground wheels, and the master-gear arranged on the axle, and engaging with the spur-gear, substantially as specified. 1

8. Ina machine of the class described, the combination with the framework, of the beams pivoted thereto and extending thereunder and provided with rearwardly extending arms 56, the shovels having vertical flanges 57 pivoted to the beams, and connecting springs between the shovels and arms, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS LOGAN GRAY.

Witnesses:

F. A. KARNS, E. H. GARRoT'r, Sr.

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